Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1887-04-11

revilleS Psychologists tell us that while
the mostof our bodies are built with such
wonderful economy that we can spare
nothing, and the loss of finger Is him
derment, and the injury OF toe joint
makes us lame, still that we have two or
three useless physical apparaI, and no
anatOmist or physiOlogist has ever been
able to tell what they are good for.
They are no doubt the foundation Of
the resurrection body, worth nothing to
us in this state, 10 be indispensably val
liable in the next state. The jewish rab-
bins had only hint OF this suggestion
when they said that In the human frame
there was a small bone which they sald
wGs to he the basis or the resurrection
body. Perhaps that may have been a
delusiou. But this thing is certain, the
Christian scientists Of our day have
found out that there are two or three
supertluitIes of body that are something
gloriOusly suggestive of another state.
called at my friends house one sum
mer day. | found the yard all piled up
with the rubbish OF carpenter and ma
sons work. The door was Off. The
plumbers had torn up the floor. The root
was being lifted in cupOla. All the pic
lures were gone and the paper hangers
were doing their work. All the mo5erR
improvements were being introduced
into that dwelling. There was not a
room in the house fit TO live IN at that
time, although month before when
| visited that house everything
was so beautiful l could not have sug-
gested an improvement. My friend had
gone with his family to the Holy Land,
expecting to come back at the end Of six
months, when the building was to be
done. And o, what WAS his Joy when at
the end of six months he returned and the
old house was enlarged and improved and
glorlfiedl That Is your body. 1t looks
we'll now-all the rooms filed with health,
and we could hardly make a suggestion.
But after awhile your soul Will 20 to the
Holy Land, and while you are gone the
old house Of your tabernacle will be en-
tirely reconstructed from cellar to attic,
and every nerve, muscle and bone and
tissue and artery must be hauled over,
and the Old structure will be FURNISHED
and adorned and raised and cupOlaed and
enlarged, and all the Improvements of
Heaven introduced and you will move
into 1t on resurrection day. "For we
know that II our earthly house OF
this tabernacle were dissolved, we nave
building OF God, house not made with
hands, eternal in the heavens" ., what
a day when body and soul meet again !!
They are fond OF each other. Did your
body ever have pain and your soul not
soul not Te.echO iJ2 or, changing the
question, did your soul ever have any
trouble and your body not sympathize
with it2 growing wan and weak under
the depressing influence. Or did your
soul ever have gladness but your body
celebrated 1t with kindled eye and cheek
and elastic step? surely God never Ia
tended two such good friends to be very
long separated. And so when the worlds
last Easter morning shall come the soul
will descend, crying, "Where is my
bodyT and the body will ascend, saying,
Nv here is my sOulr" aud the Lord OF the
resurrection will bring them together,
and it Will be a perfect soul In perfect
body, introduced by perfect Christ into
a perfect beaven. VictOryl Do you won
der that to-day we swathe this house
with garlandsf d. you wonder we cele-
brate it with the most consecrated voice
of song that we can invite, and with the
deftest fingers on organ and cofnet, and
with doXologies that beat these arches
with the pillows of sound as the sea
smites the basalt at Giants Causeway?
only the bad dlsapprove of the resurrec-
ton.
A cruel heather warrior heard Mr..
Alofat, the missionary, preach about the
resurrection, and he said to the mission
airy: "Will my father rise in the last
day ?" Eyes" said the missionary. "Wiil
all the dead in battle rise Y said the cruel
chieftain. "Yes," said the missionary.
Then" said the warrior, "let me hear
no more about the resurrection day.
There can be no resurrection. there shall
be no resurrection. / have slain thOus-
ands in battle. VIII they riseW All,
there will be more TO rise on that day
than those want to see whose crimes
have never been repented OF. But for all
OTHERS who allowed Chri 10 be their
pardon and their life and their resurreo-
tion 1t Will be a day of victory.
The thunders OF the last day will be the
salvo that greets you into harbor. The
lightnings viii bs only the torches OF
triump phal procession marching down to
escort YOU home. The burning worlds
flashing through immensity will be the
rockets celebrating your coronation on
thrones where you Will reign forever ahd
forever and forever. Where is death
What have we to do with death? As
your reunited BODY and soul swing of
from this planet on that last day you
Will see deep gashes all up and down the
hills, deep gaBhes all through the valleys,
and they Will be the emptied graves,
they will be the abandoned sepulohres,
with rough ground tossed on either side
OF them, and slabs will lie uneven on the
rent hillocks, and there Will be fallen
monuments aud cenotaphs, and then for
the drst time fOu will appreciate the full
exhilaration OF the text, HE Will swat
low up death IN victory"
'Hail the lord Of earth and heavenl
Praise TO hee by both be given;
Thee we greet triumphant now,